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Showing posts with label couples & parties. Show all posts

Saturday, September 26, 2015

Shake Up Your Fall Date Night! Are you in a date night rut? How many "movies and dinner" dates can one possibly look forward to?





Are you in a date night rut? How many "movies and dinner" dates can one possibly look forward to? Some of these may sound dorky but you will have fun if you let yourself...be silly...laugh! Act like dating teenagers...you'll be surprised how fun this can be. Step out of your comfort zone, you wont be sorry!

50 Fall Date Ideas:
1. Get lost in a corn maze with thermoses of your favorite hot drinks
2. Take popcorn and hot cider to a local community outdoor concert
3. Visit a haunted house
4. Have a board game night
5. Go to a gym and workout together
6. Write out a Fall Bucket List together (take turns choosing activities)
7. Have a bonfire party with with flannel blankets (invite more couples maybe?)
8. Go ice skating
9. Make Haunted Gingerbread houses with Halloween colored candy and icing
10. Rake some leaves together, play in them, and rake them up again:!
11. Cuddle by a fire with hot drinks and read Edger Allen Poe together
12. Visit your local visitors center and go on a historic tour of your own town
13. Fly kites on a windy day
14. Give little care packages or blankets to some homeless people
15. Pick out Halloween Costumes together, and have a fashion show!
16. Make caramel apples together
17. Have a marathon party and watch a whole season of a favorite show (with lots of snacks)
18. Visit a local arcade and play all the two man video games
19. Go roller skating
20. Go to a local harvest festival
21. Go to a concert together
22. Turn the lights off and tell ghost stories with a flash light
23. Go bowling with some family or friends
24. Go to the County fair, and don't leave out the Ferris wheel
25. Visit a new restaurant neither of you have ever tried
26. Go for a bike ride together along a scenic trail
27. Schedule a private ballroom dance lesson for the two of you
28. Spend the date at a big bookstore and grab some cocoa from the little cafe
29. Have a scary movie marathon, with only one blanket:)
30. Bake a pumpkin or apple pie together
31. Take a walk on a deserted beach and breath in the chilly sea air
32. Explore a local farmers market and buy a few new homemade treats to try together
33. Go to a pumpkin patch
34. Pumpkin carving/decorating together
35. Go for a walk and or picnic out in the country where you can really see the changing season
36. Go horseback riding
37. Really surprise him or her with a romantic hot air balloon ride
38. Put a simple quilt together (if your guy will go for it), and then snuggle in it!
39. Bring a pizza to the park and toss a Frisbee or football
40. Make lots of tailgating snacks and watch 'the big game'
41. Make a fun video together and post it to YouTube! (try talking in accents or doing magic tricks, etc)
42. Go Geo-caching (a local treasure hunt where you use a GPS www.geocaching.com)
43. Have a costume party with friends
44. Go shopping for some fall decor and things (don't leave out the flannel sheets!)
45. Climb onto your roof with some blankets and star gaze
46. Rent a canoe or kayak and go enjoy all the Fall colors out on the water
47. Visit a $1 store with an equal budget, and pick out silly meaningful gifts for each other
48. Go to a zoo together, and don't leave out eh gift shop and little restaurant
49. Make Halloween sugar cookies and deliver them to friends or family
50. Go to a local college or high school sporting event

And there you have it! I hope that the list has left you if anything a little more inspired to experiment more with date nights and to break out of those (potentially) boring routines!
I'd love to hear what you think about the list, and if you have any different ideas you'd like to share of dates you love then please share them with us in the comments! Credit: Adapted from Thefreckledfox.com



Saturday, September 19, 2015

40 New & Improved Date Night Ideas - Step out of your comfort zone. It's fun out there...you never know what might happen! Repeat after me...spontaneous fun is a good thing!

Step out of your comfort zone. It's fun out there...you never know what might happen! Repeat after me...spontaneous fun is a good thing!

  1. Use YouTube to teach you something together (fox trot anyone?)
  2. Go lake or stream fishing…who cares if you catch anything, the view is amazing.
  3. Visit an antique store.
  4. Invite friends over for dinner.
  5. Look at houses you would buy if you won the lottery.
  6. Go to a wine tasting.
  7. Go miniature golfing.
  8. Host a chili cook-off with friends.
  9. Play tennis (especially fun if you don’t know how) Invite another couple!
  10. Go on a picnic in the mountains or better yet the beach.
  11. Go to a concert or music event.
  12. Take goofy pictures together…find a photo booth!
  13. Take a scenic drive and make-out in the car.
  14. Go out for ice cream.
  15. Have friends over for game night or cards.
  16. Bake something together.
  17. Go to a local event or festival.
  18. Play a board game.
  19. Go to the dog park and watch all the dogs play.
  20. Visit a local museum.
  21. Read a book together (aloud, take turns reading)
  22. Host a cocktail party.
  23. Get a friend or your kids to do a photo shoot.
  24. Go to a coffee shop and sit around and enjoy each other’s company without rushing.
  25. Learn to surf (cowabunga dude!)
  26. Play an interactive video game lie Wii Sports or Xbox Kinect (You WILL laugh like crazy)
  27. Dream about your bucket list and write it down!
  28. Take a hike.
  29. Have a water fight in the backyard.
  30. Wash your cars together and get wet!
  31. Go to the park and toss a Frisbee.
  32. Go for a bike ride.
  33. Volunteer for a community service project (Habitats for Humanity is awesome!)
  34. Take a dance lesson (salsa anyone?)
  35. Bake a cake together (did you know frosting licks right off your skin?)
  36. Check out Groupon or Living Social for fun things to do that you never heard of (at a discount!)
  37. Go star gazing with blankets and wine.
  38. Play at the playground (swing! slide!)
  39. Do a workout video together (funny beyond belief)
  40. Invite friends over for some co-ed touch football.